Carpenters construct a small framed structure at the 52nd Annual Goschenhoppen Folk Festival. For more than a half-century, volunteers have gathered each summer to showcase the daily life of the Pennsylvania Germans of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Goschenhoppen Folk Festival, 52 years of time travel

Craftsmen let children take turns bore a hole on a piece of wood at the 52nd Annual Goschenhoppen Folk Festival, held Aug. 10-11.

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Kathleen O’Keeffe cooks sausage on a old fashion stove at the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

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Carpenters construct a small framed structure at the 52nd Annual Goschenhoppen Folk Festival. For more than a half-century, volunteers have gathered each summer to showcase the daily life of the Pennsylvania Germans of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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People gather around a wood turner as he crafts a table leg at the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

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Visitors talk with one of the many interpreters at the 52nd Annual Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

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Interpreters play music for visitors at the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

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Children, dressed in period clothing, run across a field together at the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

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Visitors tour the rows of craftsman making traditional hand made items at the 52nd Annual Goschenhoppen Folk Festival held in Perkiomenville.

This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival.

The folk festival is sponsored and enacted by the Goschenhoppen Historians Inc., which was formed to preserve the folk culture of the area, including the food, dress and language.

This non-commercial event, staffed by volunteers, celebrates the German settlers who inhabited the northern half of the Perkiomen Creek and its tributaries in Montgomery County, according to the group’s website.

The two-day festival was held Friday and Saturday at the Henry Antes Plantation off Route 73 in Perkiomenville.

Visitors witnessed all kinds of activities in the daily life of 18th and 19th century settlers and their families, from preparing meals, farming, building structures and making crafts.

Guests also had the opportunity to join the re-enactors and do the work themselves. There was also entertainment and food for visitors.